[3] However, the historical accuracy of this story has been questioned by historian William Fraser who stated that Alexander Sutherland was in prison for the whole year of 1517 when the battle is said to have taken place.
[4] Some time after this Alexander Sutherland, 1st of Killipheder married a sister of John Mackay, the chief of the clan he had allegedly fought against at Torran Dubh.
William Murray of the family of Pulrossie subsequently murdered John Sutherland on the Nether Green in the west corner of the garden at Dunrobin.
[13] William Sutherland of Killipheder (d.1832) enjoyed a small annuity from the Countess and was regarded as the eldest male descendant of the original earls.
[14] According to volume VIII of The Scots Peerage which was published in 1911, the descendants of Alexander Sutherland, 1st of Killipheder continued until 1829, "and may still exist".